The Watchers 2024 May 2026

Final Thought: A gorgeous, soggy, and frustrating misfire. The bunker is great. The forest is great. The script needed another draft.

Dakota Fanning delivers a reliably grounded performance. Mina is prickly and untrusting, suffering from a mother-related trauma that the script holds close to its chest. Fanning sells the paranoia of a woman who doesn’t trust the humans in the room any more than the monsters outside. The Watchers 2024

Unfortunately, the film cannot escape its lineage. For the first hour, The Watchers is a superior mood piece. Then the third act arrives, and the ghost of M. Night himself possesses the editing bay. Final Thought: A gorgeous, soggy, and frustrating misfire

There is a specific, claustrophobic dread that comes from being lost in a forest that seems to breathe back at you. Ishana Night Shyamalan, daughter of M. Night, clearly understands this. Her debut feature, The Watchers , is dripping with atmospheric ambition and Celtic mythology, but it ultimately falls prey to the very thing it warns against: spending too much time in a confined space without a clear way out. The script needed another draft

Rating: ⭐⭐½ (2.5/5)